Instructional Material
4 Ways Augmented Reality Could Change Corporate Training Forever
By 2020, 25% of the American workforce will be over the age of 55 and approaching retirement, a phenomenon becoming known as the Silver Tsunami. While this could create a shortage of skilled workers in a number of fields including electric utilities, telecommunications, and manufacturing, augmented reality (AR) is poised not only to address issues faced by our aging workforce, but to fundamentality increase productivity by changing how all employees are trained in the future. In 2016, U.S. companies across industries spent nearly $1,000 in training per employee, largely delivered in traditional formats like classroom-based seminars and classes, and even online training modules that mimic that experience. This kind of learning has suited people's needs for centuries, particularly when learning was thought of as memorization with many cultures celebrating those who could recite long texts with exceptional rote skills. But as the breadth of human knowledge expanded, learning paradigms have changed with the works of John Dewey and others who recognized that understanding why information is important and how it relates to our world is true learning--and should be the goal.
Machine Learning: An Introduction to Supervised and Unsupervised Learning Algorithms
The phrase "Machine Learning" refers to the automatic detection of meaningful data by computing systems. In the last few decades, it has become a common tool in almost any task that needs to understand data from large data sets. One of the biggest application of machine learning technology is the search engine. Search engines learn how to provide the best results based on historic, trending, and relative data sets. When you look at anti-spam software, it learns how to filter email messages.
CIS 472/572 โ Machine Learning โ Winter 2015
Please check Piazza regularly for announcements and discussion. I will attempt to post slides before lecture. Readings in CIML are required. Other readings are optional unless otherwise specified. Domingos, Pedro Domingos' video lectures on Coursera There are many excellent machine learning textbooks, but none of them is quite perfect for this class.
Robots Podcast #239: Robot Academy, with Peter Corke
Robot Academy is an online platform that provides free-to-use undergraduate-level learning resources for robotics and robotic vision. The content was developed for two 6-week Massively Open Online Courses (MOOCs) that Corke taught in 2015 and 2016. This content is now available as individual lessons (over 200 videos, each less than 10 minutes long) or in masterclasses (collections of videos, around 1 hour in duration, previously a MOOC lecture). Unlike a MOOC, all lessons are available all the time. While the content is typically designed for undergraduate-level students, around 20% of the lessons require no more than general knowledge.
Python for Data Science and Machine Learning Bootcamp
Learn how to use NumPy, Pandas, Seaborn, Matplotlib, Plotly, Scikit-Learn, Machine Learning, Tensorflow, and more! This comprehensive course by Jose Portilla will be your guide to learning how to use the power of Python to analyze data, create beautiful visualizations, and use powerful machine learning algorithms! Data Scientist has been ranked the number one job on Glassdoor and the average salary of a data scientist is over $120,000 in the United States according to Indeed! Data Science is a rewarding career that allows you to solve some of the world's most interesting problems! This course is designed for both beginners with some programming experience or experienced developers looking to make the jump to Data Science!
Making a robot learn how to move, part 1 -- Evolutionary algorithms
This is the first part or a series of posts. To have a short introduction, read my Intro post. It is not rare for technology and engineering to take inspiration from nature's great designs. In this post, I will talk about genetic or evolutionary algorithms, their role in robotics, and more widely in computer science. Evolutionary algorithms are inspired by the natural process of evolution and natural selection.
The Business of Artificial Intelligence
For more than 250 years the fundamental drivers of economic growth have been technological innovations. The most important of these are what economists call general-purpose technologies -- a category that includes the steam engine, electricity, and the internal combustion engine. The internal combustion engine, for example, gave rise to cars, trucks, airplanes, chain saws, and lawnmowers, along with big-box retailers, shopping centers, cross-docking warehouses, new supply chains, and, when you think about it, suburbs. Companies as diverse as Walmart, UPS, and Uber found ways to leverage the technology to create profitable new business models. The most important general-purpose technology of our era is artificial intelligence, particularly machine learning (ML) -- that is, the machine's ability to keep improving its performance without humans having to explain exactly how to accomplish all the tasks it's given. Within just the past few years machine learning has become far more effective and widely available. We can now build systems that learn how to perform tasks on their own. Why is this such a big deal? First, we humans know more than we can tell: We can't explain exactly how we're able to do a lot of things -- from recognizing a face to making a smart move in the ancient Asian strategy game of Go. Prior to ML, this inability to articulate our own knowledge meant that we couldn't automate many tasks. Second, ML systems are often excellent learners.
5 Free Resources for Getting Started with Self-driving Vehicles
Recent years have witnessed amazing progress in AI related fields such as computer vision, machine learning and autonomous vehicles. As with any rapidly growing field, however, it becomes increasingly difficult to stay up-to-date or enter the field as a beginner. While several topic specific survey papers have been written, to date no general survey on problems, datasets and methods in computer vision for autonomous vehicles exists. This paper attempts to narrow this gap by providing a state-of-the-art survey on this topic. Our survey includes both the historically most relevant literature as well as the current state-of-the-art on several specific topics, including recognition, reconstruction, motion estimation, tracking, scene understanding and end-to-end learning. A lengthy, thorough overview, and probably the best starting place for anyone looking to get up to speed in the field quickly, and in one spot.